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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Goin' George (Again)

Holy brown cows!! Wasn't the awesome, well AWESOME, yesterday?? I hope you found a lot of books for your TBR pile and entered contests like crazy.

There's no way I'll ever top my post on Friday or yesterday's epicness (yes, it's a word). So I'm not even going to try. I feel like George Costanza in that episode where he's always ducking out of the room at the high point. And yes, I could quote from a Seinfeld episode in every blog post I write. Can't you? (lol!)

But seriously, a huge thanks to everyone who spread the awesome with me yesterday. Otherwise, it would've been me spreading the a--. YOU are what made it awesome. Well, you and some amazing authors.

Elana, I can't thank you enough for yesterday! I met so many awesome writer/bloggers and gained over twenty new followers. Spread the Awesome was a HUGE success and I'm so happy to have been a part of it. Your idea rocked! Whatever goes on in June, be sure I stay on your email list :)))

Have a great day! I know I will...I'm hitting the library AND the bookstore, list in hand!

I don't know what we should do (see how I'm being all inclusive there?!) but when I read Jessica's comment above, I thought, yes, we need a June ADVENTURE!! I'll think about it, and stop back if I think of something full of awesomeness.

Yesterday was so busy I'm still trying to figure out what all happened! I'm sure it would have been easier to keep up with if it wasn't the end of the semester here lol, stupid college finals and papers. Don't they know how important blogs are?!

It was fun though, and I did manage to enter a contest or two and add some books to my list. :) Thanks for sharing the awesome with the blogosphere!

June... June...: June dresses based on mood.Elana: But June essentially always wear the same thing.June: Seemingly. But, within that basic framework, there are a number of subtle variations, visible only to the trained observer, that reveal the many moods, the many shades, of June.Elana: And what is this?June: This is morning mist.

That was a great idea to promote authors. Perhaps next month we could all buy a debut author book to donate to our library? I think many are facing real budget cuts. Or maybe do one in the Fall to donate to school libraries, which are also really suffering.

Loved yesterday! Such a good idea! I'm not sure what you should do in June, but I agree that it should be an adventures. :) Maybe featuring unpublished authors whose work we really like? Or books that haven't come out but we're looking forward to?

Yesterday was truly awesome! I only got around to half a dozen or so blogs before my internet went out, but it was spectacular while it lasted. In the long run, the computer outage was probably a good thing for my tbr pile.

I have a question for you about a one liner for a manuscript. We all know they are basically: I wrote a story about a person who... but what if the era is important? What if it takes place in a fantasy world - how can you say that without it getting too wordy?

"I wrote a story about a girl who lives in the renaissance but not the real renaissance, it's a fantasy world where there is magic, but it's basically like the renaissance but not on this world, but the same, only with magic..."

DUDE, I totally have an idea for June or another month that I could give you. It's something I've thought about doing but you'd pull it together way better than me. No idea if you'll like it/be up for it but feel free to e-mail me. : )

How about a scene writing contest? I missed out on all of the fun yesterday...I was working on an interview with a writing buddy and having technical difficulties...By the time I got to my blog reading TOD, my brain was fried. :( I'll have a look at what everyone's talkin' about.

That was perhaps the most fun blogging I've done in a long time. Let's do something like that again soon, okay? Okay? And BTW, I finally heard back from Catherine Fisher's agent. She's agreed to let me interview her, even though the Spread the Awesome thing is over.

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